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Joint US Nigeria air strikes obliterated an ISWAP command position near the remote village of Metele in northeastern Nigeria's Borno State on 17 May 2026. Over 20 Islamic State and ISWAP fighters were killed. The operation deployed MQ 9 Reaper drones and AC 130 gunships, with the Nigerian...
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Israel has released Layan Nasir, a Palestinian Anglican woman from St Peter's Anglican Church in Birzeit, West Bank, after holding her for eight months without formal charges. She walked out of Damon Prison at Daliyat al Karmel on 21 May 2026.
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A new Wheatley Institute report has just demolished the secular narrative that religion is bad for mental health. The comprehensive analysis of over 1,000 high quality studies, drawing on the Oxford University Press Handbook of Religion and Health, found religious involvement was linked...
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The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is pressing President Donald Trump to nominate an Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. The position has remained vacant since Mark Walker's 2025 nomination expired without a Senate vote. The call was issued...
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Christian author and True Comfort Podcast host Teasi Cannon has published a sobering reflection in The Christian Post on 17 May 2026: many wounded Christians, especially those harmed by spiritual abuse, are finding more empathy outside the Church than within it. The Church, Cannon argues...
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Pastor and author Stephen Powell has published a sharp warning in The Christian Post on 18 May 2026: the modern American Church has been promoting gifted but untransformed leaders, and the result is a steady drip of scandal and abuse that will only grow worse.
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President Donald Trump's week ended with five major initiatives reported by The Christian Post on 16 May 2026. The headline was the China visit, the first US presidential trip to Beijing during the new Xi Jinping summit cycle, where Trump pressed religious liberty concerns alongside trade.
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Jordanian Senator Michael Nazzal, who chairs the Tourism Committee in Jordan's upper house, visited the country's Evangelical Council on 11 May 2026 in what is being read as a corrective gesture. Evangelicals had been excluded from an earlier parliamentary meeting with Catholic and...
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The Church of Scotland has formally apologised at its General Assembly for the Kirk's historical involvement in chattel slavery. The apology, presented on 17 May 2026 by Very Rev Sally Foster Fulton, acknowledged that the Church both directly and indirectly benefited from slavery and that...
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The German missions organisation Deutsche Missionsgemeinschaft (DMG) marked its 75th anniversary with an "Experience Day" at Buchenauerhof near Sinsheim in southwest Germany on 10 May 2026. Over 3,000 visitors attended. The next morning DMG commissioned 10 new missionaries.
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The American Bible Society has released its State of the Bible: USA 2026 report, and the findings are devastating. Less than a third of American parents pray with their children often or daily. Only 14 percent read Scripture daily or often with their kids. Fully 50 percent of parents...
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The US Supreme Court has declined to issue an emergency block on the Biden administration's mail order abortion drug policy, allowing mifepristone pills to continue being shipped into pro life states during ongoing litigation. The decision was reported on 16 May 2026.